Web Development

Word Look-and-Feel Reporting In HTML5-Based Cross-Browser Tool

By Adrian Bridgwater, April 21, 2014

A "radical change" in the way documents will be edited in the browser

Text Control has announced its cross-platform and cross-browser strategy to create reporting templates on the Web. Company president Bjoern Meyer claims that his firm's new HTML5 rendering technology will bring about a "radical change" in the way documents will be edited in the browser.

The company's heritage and base of experience stems back to integrating reporting into .NET applications.

Users (in this case developers) create templates using their MS Word skills rather than using complex reporting designers.

Text Control's product is Microsoft Word compatible and can load and save industry standard formats such as DOCX, RTF, and DOC. It can be deployed on all Microsoft technology platforms Windows Forms, WPF, and ASP.NET. End-users create documents and templates on all operating systems with HTML5 capable browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Internet Explorer. Additionally, tablets and smart phones are supported as well.

The presented technology doesn't require any client-side browser plug-ins, it is simply pure HTML5 and JavaScript.

"Text Control HTML5 supports all typical word processing features such as full table support, headers and footers, sections, and tab positions. Additionally, reporting elements like merge fields, master-detail views, barcodes, and 2D and 3D charts can be inserted and bound to database fields. The created templates are merged using the reporting engine of Text Control to create documents and reports as Adobe PDF or other typical formats," said Meyer.

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